Hoffenheim and Bayern staged a kind of 'strike' against a group of Bavarian club ultras, who had displayed insulting posters against the patron of the local team, Dietmar Hopp, and spent the last ten minutes.
The match, which ended with a 0-6 in favor of Bayern, was already settled for quite some time when the banners appeared on the Bayern curve. The central referee, Christian Dingert, interrupted the game for five minutes and then restarted it and in the meantime the two teams had agreed between them their strike with fallen arms in solidarity with Hopp.
Before, Bayern players and the coaching staff and part of the dome faced the ultras. Flick, Bavarian coach, and Thiago approached the area of their fans to ask them to enter reason.
In the final minutes, Hopp and the president of the Bayern Board of Directors, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, were together, significantly, together with the band and in the midfield. Meanwhile, the two coaches were talking to each other and in the state there were shouts of encouragement to Dietmar Hopp.
Hopp, founder of the SAP computer consortium, created the Hoffenheim from scratch. He took him to the first category of German football and even to play the Champions League.
Hopp, white of the ultras
The figure of Hopp has become a permanent target of attacks by rival ultras who see it as a kind of soccer marketing symbol. The most radical have been those of Borussia Dortmund, who have repeatedly raised posters with the figure of Hopp locked in the sights of a rifle.
The foregoing has led to criminal complaints since Dortmund supporters have their entrance to the Hoffenheim stadium banned. In the posters this Saturday, the Bayern ultras intended to sympathize with the Dortmund ultras.
The match had a brief first interruption, when a first poster was deployed. There the Bayern players went to the stand and argued with the ultras, while in the box, Rummenigge approached Hopp to hug him.
In the second interruption, decreed by the main referee, the teams went to the locker room for five minutes and then returned to the field with the decision made to make their gesture of protest, amid the applause of most of the public and Shouts of support for Hopp.
At the beginning of the second half of Freiburg-Dortmund , despite the fact that Hoffenheim had no role in the game, there was also an interruption by chants against Hopp.
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